“This graveyard slipping into the sea, this is like losing part of yourself,” Home Planet Fund partner Virginia Tome said of the personal, spiritual, and cultural loss of the graves to the sea. “There is nothing these people can do to stop this. They can only accept the fact their loved ones are gone again. It’s like losing their loved ones a second time.”
Barely three months later, in a stunningly rapid development, the villagers were greatly dismayed to find yet another row of graves are now beginning to slip into the sea.
While efforts are underway to slow the erosion and provide some protection from storms and rising seas, three rows of graves have already been lost, and now 22 more individual graves are at risk.
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